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Why the EU’s targeted sanctions on Belarus won’t work
Maryia Sadouskaya-Komlach is a Belarusian journalist and program coordinator at Free Press Unlimited. WARSAW — There’s no reason to believe that targeted sanctions will solve the problem in Belarus. Nearly every vote in Belarus since 1996 has been followed by EU sanctions — and yet President Alexander Lukashenko’s repressive regime...
EU top diplomat Borrell willing to go to Belarus but says time not right
SANTANDER, Spain — EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said Wednesday he’s willing to go to Belarus to help defuse the crisis there but the time is not yet right for such a mission. Speaking ahead of a videoconference of EU leaders on Belarus, Borrell said the bloc will focus for now on promoting a political dialogue alongside the...
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[Ticker] More than 200,000 at Minsk opposition rally
Some 220,000 people gathered in central Minsk in opposition to rigged elections last Sunday, the BBC reported. “We are in the majority. We are power,” Maria Kolesnikova, an opposition leader said. About 30,000 people also gathered at a rival rally in the city by president Aleksander Lukashenko, who called protesters...
Preparing for the next Lebanon or Belarus
Nathalie Tocci is director of Istituto Affari Internazionali, a special adviser to European High Representative for Foreign Affairs Josep Borrell, and the author of POLITICO‘s World View column. Her opinions are her own. ROME — Lebanon and Belarus are reminders that what is fragile can eventually break. For decades, the European Union’s...
Belarus protests: How we got here
Belarus isn’t often in the news — except for elections. That’s when President Alexander Lukashenko and his supine parliament score unbelievable margins of victory. This usually sparks protests at home and finger-wagging from abroad. The rule since 1994 is that nothing much changes and, after a brief bout of turbulence, things again go...
Leaderless protests contest Lukashenko’s grip on Belarus
MINSK — Over the two and a half decades of Aleksander Lukashenko’s rule in Belarus, anti-government protests had the same scenario — after a crackdown by police and a wave of arrests, unrest quickly faded away. That’s not happening now. For the third day after Sunday’s presidential election — where preliminary results gave...
In a first, EU slaps sanctions on hackers in Russia, North Korea, China
The EU on Thursday announced sanctions, including asset freezes and travel bans, on hacker groups believed to be behind three large-scale cybersecurity incidents that hit European countries in the last decade. Legal indictments in the U.S., public statements by European cybersecurity authorities and information released by cybersecurity firms in...
US congressional probe: Russian oligarchs using art to evade sanctions
WASHINGTON — Powerful Russian oligarchs have allegedly discovered a surprising new tool to evade sanctions: the secretive and largely unregulated U.S. art industry. The revelation is laid out in a new bipartisan congressional report that was released on Wednesday following a two-year investigation. The 150-page report, spearheaded by Senators Rob...
[Ticker] Ukraine accuses separatists of violating ceasefire
Ukraine’s military officials said there were two breaches of the ceasefire on Monday when pro-Russian separatists opened fire with grenades and small arms, Reuters reported. “I assure that in case the enemy violates the ceasefire and threatens their lives, the response of the armed forces will be immediate and decisive,” said...
[Ticker] Germany rejects US attempt to let Russia return to G7
Germany has rejected a proposal by US president Donald Trump to allow Russian president Vladimir Putin back into the Group of Seven (G7), according to DW. “We need Russia to solve conflicts such as those in Syria, Libya and Ukraine,” German foreign minister Heiko Maas told the Rheinische Post newspaper in an interview published on...
